Seeds of GreenPepper

GreenPepper 3.0 now available

gluisier — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:41:45 +0000

The bêta is close and the GreenPepper Confluence plug-in is now fully compatible with Confluence 4.0. You can downlad this new stable version by clicking on this link :

http://www.greenpeppersoftware.com/confluence/display/GPW/Download

Stay tunned for the next release !

Thank you
The GreenPepper Team

GreenPepper 3.0 stable beta

gluisier — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:15:14 +0000

We now have a new version of GreenPepper that is compatible with Confluence 4.0. There is a stable beta version available. Those of you who are interested in testing it, you are more than welcome to do so. You will find more information on our EAP page here.
We are fine tuning the details and adding the last functionalities needed for a full release, more news before the end of the week.

Thank you
The GreenPepper Team

Greenpepper 2.9 now available

gluisier — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:56:24 +0000

This new release includes amelioration for GreenPepper Open and the GreenPepper plugin for Confluence.

We are still working on the Greenpepper plugin to made it compatible with Confluence 4.0. The plugin model is completely different than before in this new version of Confluence so it requires a bit more time.

We are about to release GreenPepper 3.0 so stay tunned!

See the release notes for more details…

GreenPepper upgrade on the way

gluisier — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:10:32 +0000

Hi all,

We are actually aware that GreenPepper is not compatible with Confluence 4.0, .Net 4.0 and the last version of Jira, Bambo and Xwiki. The fact is that GreenPepper is no longer managed by Pyxis Canada. The product was transferred to the new subsidiary of Pyxis in Switzerland and the development was halted for several months during this process.

The good news is that the swiss team took the product back on hand a few weeks ago and are actively working on those compatibility problems. We planned a new release for November that will make GreenPepper works with Confluence 4.0, .Net 4.0 and other systems.

Support and product development are always assured and we will make every effort to answer all your questions and deliver a product tailored to your needs.

Best regards,

The swiss GP team.

GreenPepper 2.8 now available

fdenommee — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:41:54 +0000

This new release includes a performance improvements for the Hudson plugin, use of Maven coordinates for the Maven Runner, greenpepper-include-macro now available for the XWiki plugin, many improvements to the core and much more…

See the release notes for more details…

Pre-release of GreenPepper for C++ is available!

eetasse — Sun, 30 May 2010 18:54:02 +0000

We are proud to announce that a pre-release of GreenPepper for C++ developers is available! This release supports both Atlassian Confluence and XWiki wikis.

So C++ comes today to enhance the existing list of software development platforms supported by GreenPepper (Java, PHP, .NET, Ruby). This pre-release has been developped in 2 months in C++ using full test-driven approach thanks to the GoogleTest framework.

Compiled langages (like C++) are pretty challenging regarding the lack of mechanism like runtime type informations (or reflection). Our team took the challenge and got inspired by the same solutions as those retained by Google.

Our team hid complexity as much as possible, to allow GreenPepper C++ users to program with a simple source code (hum… although “simple” with C++ does not mean the same with other langages )

Want to see what a fixture source code looks like? Below a C++ header file sample :

CalculatorFixture.h

using namespace greenpepper;
using namespace type;

CLASS_FIXTURE_BEGIN(CalculatorFixture)

public:

CalculatorFixture(void);
IntegerType a;
IntegerType b;
void setA(IntegerType a);
void setB(IntegerType b);
IntegerType getA();
IntegerType getB();
IntegerType sum();

REGISTER_METHODS_BEGIN()
REGISTER_PROCEDURE_1(setA, IntegerType)
REGISTER_PROCEDURE_1(setB, IntegerType)
REGISTER_METHOD_0(getA, IntegerType)
REGISTER_METHOD_0(getB, IntegerType)
REGISTER_METHOD_0(sum, IntegerType)
REGISTER_METHODS_END()

CLASS_FIXTURE_END(CalculatorFixture)

If you want to start using executable specifications within you C++ projects, just tell us! Please contact us at grenoble@greenpeppersoftware.com. Download the package here.

Kind regards.

Make sure your software is continuously specified

fbeauregard — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:28:16 +0000

As you may have noticed in the Executable Specification and build integration post, build system integration is an area where GreenPepper shines. Most teams having good automated build practices also use a continuous integration (CI) server. We provide more comfort to those teams by allowing them to look at their GreenPepper execution results directly from their CI server user interface, we have developed integration with two major CI servers: Bamboo and Hudson.

Bamboo Build View :

Hudson Build View :

If you would like us to develop an integration with your favourite CI server, let us know.

GreenPepper 2.7 now available

fdenommee — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:19:28 +0000

This new release includes a new plugin for Hudson (a continuous integration server), support for Jira4, a better use of accented characters in specifications, many improvements to the core and much more…

See the release notes for more details…

Green is good!

fbeauregard — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:54:36 +0000

Éric Laramée, a colleague at Pyxis the other day was recalling the Greed is good scene from the movie Wall Street

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.

Thank you very much.

We the started to play with that quote and here is the result:

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that green, for lack of a better word, is good. Green is right, green works. Green clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary design. Green, in all of its forms; green for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And green, you mark my words, will not only save your project, but that malfunctioning industry called IT.

Thank you very much.

We had a good laugh and thought it was very cool!

Put your specifications in the freezer

fbeauregard — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:49:20 +0000

Some developers are asking me : How do I tag my specification when I do a release or close a development branch while GreenPepper does not provide full SCM capabilities in the wiki.

I explained in Why we did not implement a full SCM for specifications why we did not think it was a good idea to implement full SCM capabilities in the wiki.

To achieve the need stated above, we have implemented in all our build system integrations (Maven, MSBuild and Nant) a feature called freeze, what this does is simply going to the wiki server to get the specifications and store them locally. See the documentation to learn what you need to do in your build script.

You simply commit those files and tag them with your source files. Couldn’t be simpler!

Life is Green!

You can even come back months after the release and execute the specifications locally from your IDE or from the command line.

Life is Greener!